A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts : Manuscripts in the Schùyen Collection Cuneiform Texts I
This new text from Jöran Friberg, the leading expert on Babylonian mathematics, presents 130 previously unpublished mathematical clay tablets from the Norwegian Schùyen collection, and provides a synthesis of the author's most important work. Through a close study of these tablets, Friberg has...
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| Médium: | Livre numérique |
| Jazyk: | Anglais |
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Springer New York
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Cham : Springer Nature |
| Vydání: | 1st ed. 2007. |
| Edice: | Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
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| Edition sous un autre format: | • Consistent classical supergravity theories, Martin Müller, Berlin, Springer-Verlag, 1989, vi, 125 p., Lecture notes in physics, 0-387-51427-9 • A remarkable collection of babylonian mathematical texts, manuscripts in the Schùyen collection, Cuneiform Texts, 1, Jöran Friberg, 2007, New York, Springer, 1 vol. (XX-533 p.), Sources and studies in the history of mathematics and physical sciences, 978-0-387-34543-7 |
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- Acknowledgements Introduction Documentation of Provenance Abbreviations How to Get a Better Understanding of Mathematical Cuneiform Texts Old Babylonian Arithmetical Hand Tablets Old Babylonian Arithmetical Table Texts Old Babylonian Metrological Table Texts Mesopotamian Weight Stones Neo-Sumerian Field Maps (Ur III) An Old Sumerian Metro-Mathematical Table Text (Early Dynastic IIIa) Old Babylonian Hand Tablets with Practical Mathematics Old Babylonian Hand Tablets with Geometric Exercises The Beginning and the End of the Sumerian King List Three Old Babylonian Mathematical Problem Texts from Uruk Three Problem Texts Not Belonging to Any Known Group of Texts App. 1. Subtractive Notations for Numbers in Mathematical Cuneiform Texts App. 2. The Old Babylonian Combined Multiplication Table App. 3. An Old Babylonian Combined Arithmetical Algorithm App. 4. Cuneiform Systems of Notations for Numbers and Measures App. 5. Old Babylonian Complete Metrological Tables App. 6. Metro-Mathematical Cuneiform Texts from the Third Millennium BC App. 7. CUNES 50-08-001. A Combined Metro-Mathematical Table Text (ED IIIb) App. 8. Plimpton 322, a Table of Parameters for igi igi.bi Problems App. 9. Many-Place Squares of Squares in Late Babylonian Mathematical Texts App. 10. Color Photos of Selected Texts Vocabulary for the MS Texts Index of Subjects Index of Texts References